Image transcription: a post from @xed.bsky.social that says: “i never block anyone” is the social media equivalent of taking floor drugs
I only ever block spam. I don’t block people with differing opinions to me because that’s not how I roll. On the flipside, I block lemmy communities all the time - logic being that I’d rather sort by new and remove communities I have no interest in because you never know when something interesting you’re not subscribed to can come up in your feed.
Easiest example being: I’ve never seriously watched Star Trek or considered installing Linux, but you bunch of cunts have convinced me into transitioning. I’m not quite at the stage of programmer socks, but I’m sure y’all will force my hand eventually… ❤
Dw you’re government issued thigh highs will arrive upon you installing arch
I’ll be honest, I’m holding off only to do more research into what version of Linux I want installed and - more importantly - how to install it without fucking everything up.
I’ve never dual booted, but I think that’s the most likely solution for me right now so I can get used to it.
Since getting a Steam Deck, I think what I want is essentially a desktop that is very similar to the Deck. All I really use a desktop for nowadays is Steam and Firefox.
I’ve seen Pop!OS being mentioned in several articles I’ve read, along with Mint and Bazzite. I’ve heard of Ubuntu, of course - I think that’s one of the more well known distros.
The whole thing can be overwhelming when you’re not used to it. I had the same issue when originally joining Lemmy!
The steam deck uses the desktop environment called KDE Plasma if I remember correctly. I recommend using the Fedora KDE spin since, right after Debian, most apps will support Fedora. It is user friendly, feature rich, stable, secure (with massive community and corporate backing for timely Security updates), and simple.
Dual booting is a smart decision. If you opt to dual-boot, I recommend encrypting your system through the built-in OS installer. This stops Windows (or malicious software) from spying on your new install. It is also just a good idea in general.
Pop!OS doesn’t yet support Wayland, which supersedes the old and slow X11 with better security (on X11, any app can capture what you type, their is no isolation).
Bazzite seems neat but I wouldn’t go for a gaming focused distros in my experience.
Canonical, Ubuntu’s parent company, is trying hard to create a closed ecosystem. Even though Ubuntu is Debian based, they are making it hard to install native applications, instead enforcing the use of Snap, which uses a closed-source backend to provide the app repository. Snaps are also slower than native or Flatpak apps.
If you need any help, explanations, suggestions, or other thoughts about Linux, I am willing to help best I can or point you in the right direction. Ive installed linux maybe 50+ times on most of the major families of distros (Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE, Arch Linux, and some others), and have personally used many distributions that are derivative of these. I’m not like crazy experienced, just familiar (with a focus on Security).
I use the Steamdeck as my main PC and I have Bazzite on it! :3 and yeh Mint is the one I see being recommended to new people the most so I bet its a great choice :3
If you want to dual boot I suggest getting a second hard drive (a little SSD maybe) and installing Linux on that. Then you can select what OS to boot through the BIOS
It’ll be way easier and less risky than trying to install Linux alongside windows on the same hard drive, and it’ll also stop windows from screwing with the bootloader when it updates.
what about toxic idiots whose every comment is downvoted to oblivion and they make you want to stop even looking at comments anymore
That’s exactly why I never block anyone
Floor drugs deserved better than this.
My stance on floor drugs is akin to Angel Dust off Hazbin Hotel: “You think I can’t tell my drink is being spiked? Its what I come here for!!”
Hahaha I really need to check that out. That’s also my mood. My friend was once like “You haven’t been drinking, right? Want to try GHB?” and I’m like “nope and I would LOVE TO!”
I’ll start blocking people when it stops people from responding to my posts, Reddit style.
I don’t have the patience to deal with people using my posts as a jumping-off point for ignorant shite without being called out on it.
The problem with that style of blocking is that it goes both ways.
Someone can post ignorant shite and block anyone who would give them pushback, then when other people look at the comments they think “wow I guess everyone here just agrees with this”.
I guess I’ve always viewed making a post as standing on a street corner and shouting, not meeting on the side of a street with a group of your friends.
I guess it depends on if you view “subreddits” as communities, that is groups of people that you choose to associate with if you post there, or if you view them as topics that you want your post tagged as. A lot of social media sites take the latter approach, but reddit used to take the former, as did old style forums. It might just be from me spending more time on those kinds of platforms, but I do think the “community” approach is better.
The only things I block are legit spam, and hexbear. And the only reason I block hexbear is because I’m banned from their instance and can’t interact with it anyway.
Even if you’re not banned from hexbear can you really interact with it?
I wouldn’t call someone going through the wikipedia article for informal fallacies like it’s a checklist then brigading all your past activities an interaction so much as an experience, and not a good one at that.
